CVE-2026-2303: Heap Out-of-Bounds Read in Go Driver GSSAPI C Wrappers enables application crash or information leak
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-2303 is a medium (CVSS 6.9) Permissive List of Allowed Inputs vulnerability in mongodb inc mongodb go driver. EPSS estimates a 0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 24.8% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 6.9, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 13 · Related 14Timeline
- 10-02-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-02-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The mongo-go-driver repository contains CGo bindings for GSSAPI (Kerberos) authentication on Linux and macOS. The C wrapper implementation contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability due to incorrect assumptions about string termination in the GSSAPI standard. Since GSSAPI buffers are not guaranteed to be null-terminated or have extra padding, this results in reading one byte past the allocated heap buffer.
CVSS metrics
10 scores · 5 sources · 2 versions- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated6.9MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated6.9MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated6.9MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- NVDNIST6.9MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated6.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVDNIST6.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS trend
Probability
0.32%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
25%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.08 pp
From 0.24% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, low-privilege account, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Chainguard200 products
- agentbeat< 9.2.7-r14
- agentbeat-fips< 9.2.7-r13
- amazon-cloudwatch-agentAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 1.300073.0-r1 | < 1.300070.0-r2
- amazon-cloudwatch-agent-fips< 1.300070.0-r0
- argo-cd-3.0All versions (No fix recorded)
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